And in another place Epicharmus, in his Pyrrha and Prometheus, says—

Just look now at this tellina, and behold
This periwinkle and this splendid limpet.

And in Sophron cockles are called melænides.

For now melænides will come to us,
Sent from a narrow harbour.

And in the play which is called "The Clown and the Fisherman," they are called the cherambe. And Archilochus also mentions the cherambe: and Ibycus mentions the periwinkle. And the periwinkle is called both ἀναρίτης and ἀνάρτας. And the shell being something like that of a cockle, it sticks to the rocks, just as limpets do. But Herondas, in his Coadjutrixes, says—

Sticking to the rocks as a periwinkle.

And Æschylus, in his Persæ, says—

Who has plunder'd the islands producing the periwinkle?

And Homer makes mention of the oyster.

[[144]] 32. Diocles the Carystian, in his treatise on the Wholesomes, says that the best of all shell-fish, as aperient and diuretic food, are mussels, oysters, scallops, and cockles. And Archippus says, in his poem called "Fishes,"—